Word: bureau
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...shrewd, witty New Englander, the ninth of ten children, Harold Bowen has had a long and lively career in the Navy. He was chief of its Bureau of Engineering and director of the Naval Research Laboratory before Pearl Harbor. Since then he has been a special assistant and troubleshooter for the Secretary of the Navy, specializing in operating seized, strikebound plants. At 61 he is still one of the youngest, most energetic men in the Navy. Each evening he and his equally energetic wife walk a "fourmile loop in Washington's streets. The Admiral, whose enthusiasms are never halfhearted...
...York Times correspondent in Italy, Cortesi managed to get along with Fascist officials while many another newsman was kicked out of the country. Cortesi (rhymes with more-lazy) had to get along: he was an Italian citizen. (His mother was from Boston; his father was Associated Press bureau chief in Rome for 29 years...
...such refugees should be taxed, the same as U.S. citizens. Fact is, however, that refugees in the U.S. on visitors' permits are legally subject to the same taxes as citizens-if they in fact reside in the U.S. If some of them have got away without paying, the Bureau of Internal Revenue has been negligent...
Died. Tom C. Geraghty, 62, veteran scenarist and ex-head of the OWI's Holly wood bureau; in Hollywood. Connected with many a foreign film, he once did a historical picture for Mussolini, was paid off one-fifth in cash, four-fifths in olive...
...guess," observed Sickles' friend Mark Twain, "that if the General had to lose a leg, he'd rather lose the one he has than the one he hasn't.") And, incredibly enough, he was still the terror of matrons with unmarried daughters. The great bureau in his bedroom was stuffed with silk stockings, lingerie and perfume; to a lady who said she would prefer to be rewarded with a lion cub, Sickles gave a litter...